Posted on 07/03/2011 11:44:38 PM PDT by palin45potus
Sarah Palin is too modest to claim the role of "TEA Party Queen", but she most certainly deserves a great deal of credit for helping to get the movement going. I want to acknowledge this on the second anniversary of her selfless actions in stepping aside and taking the fight to another level.
Think back to August 2008. I was a supporter os John McCain due to his service to the Country. I thought that he was treated badly by the Bush Family in 2000, and I was glad to see him get his due.
While I was all to aware of his troublesome habit of "reaching across the aisle", I didn't care for Romney, finding him slick and disingenuous. I can still remember him trying to show us that he was a lifelong NRA guy (Boy, who wants to go to the shooting range for a photo-op this time around? Anyone up for a challenge from Sarah?) I thought Huckabee had alot of Elmer Gantry in him. Rudy and Fred Thompson got me excited, but when they failed to light a fire, I was happy for John McCain.
However, he sure didn't seem up for the fight against Obama. I heard rumors that he'd consider picking Sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate, and I thought he'd taken leave of his senses! (BTW, I admire Sen. Lieberman very much. As a Democrat from Connecticut, he's great. But not so much as the VP for the GOP!) I heard about Tim Pawlenty, which sounded about as exciting as soggy wonder bread, and I heard Mitt Romney, which I thought meant that John would have to watch his back.
Then, one Friday Morning as I drove around doing errands, I heard a woman with a kinda funny accent speaking truths that I hadn't heard in ages, and I was instantly a fan. I had to find out more about who this gal was!
It took alot of discernment of what was being fed to us, as the McCain team seemed content to let Barack Obama's team and media tell us all about her, but I could tell that she was "One of us", and she connected like nobody since, who..That's it, Ronald Reagan!
Of course, the rest of the story about her delivering possibly the best campaign speech in 20 years or more, the bogus ethics complaints, etc, and the eventual Election Loss followed, but I really like that gal, and I hoped that she wouldn't just fade away.
When she was trying to invoke the 10th amendment in Alaska, only to have her own party stick it to her, and then fail to defend her from the endless ethics charges that all got dismissed eventually, I thought that the machine had won.
However, the TEA Party had gotten started, not in response to having a Black Man in the White House, but to average Americans finally standing up and speaking out against 2 decades or more of unaccountable runaway spending. I think that during the Veep debate, when Sarah answered a question about the TARP bailouts with what Frank Luntz described as "The strongest answer he'd ever recorded", a movement began to form. A neglected people began to realize that the pretty gal from Alaska really did know what their life was all about, and was speaking in their language. When she talked about her sister's gas stand in Anchorage, they got it.
So today, July 3rd, I want to salute you, Sarah Palin. You are the one I think gave the TEA Party movement it's first authentic voice. You are the one who was willing to sacrifice personal prestige and position for the greater Good, and you are the one who's given many of us hope for a genuine restoration of America. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Has anyone ever read the book "The Nightingale's Song" by Robert Timberg? It's about how dis-spirited the US Military was in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and the author's premise is that it took the election of Ronald Reagan to reawaken the inner pride of these warriors, and how they responded to his call.
Well, it also implied that this led to the involvement of Oliver North, John Poindexter and Robert MacFarlane in the Iran-Contra affair. That's debatable, I guess, but the author explores these 3 men, as well as James Webb, a class mate of North at Annapolis, and John McCain, who was Poindexter's classmate in the class of '58. Poindexter was the valedictorian, where McCain distinguished himself mostly with demerits and his pugnacious attitude towards bullying upperclassmen. This character trait served him well, of course, during his long captivity in the North Vietnamese POW camps that he was interred in. His fellow POW's have attested to his defiance of the guards, often earning him extra beatings.
Anyways, the title refers to a story told by the actress, Barbara Feldon (Agent99 from Get Smart). She told the story of how Nightingales have an intricate song that they sing. If a Nightingale is raised apart from other Nightingales, it will remain mute, but as soon as it hears the song, it picks it up like it's known it all it's life. Which it has, in it's "Inner Programming".
I think it's doubly ironic that this story came from a book about Ronald Reagan and John McCain, because by this account John McCain is the direct link between Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin.
But my take is that we've all been wanting to hear our own version of "The Nightingale's Song" ever since Reagan rose off into the sunset, and we didn't even realize how much we missed it until Sarah sang it to us back in 2008.
To hear what I mean, listen to the 4 minute mark of her remarks in Pella the other night, when she boldly proclaims "If we go down, we're not going down without a fight!"
Or the summary of her Madison speech, which we know is "Mr. President, Game On!"
These are the bold colors Reagan spoke of. Who else can evoke them quite like Sarah?
The Tea Party has no leaders—but it has voices. Sarah Palin is one of the most prominent of them in the movement. The movement has no real head—if it did the rivals would try to chop it off. Sarah Palin, isn’t a Tea Party Queen—but she is a respected member. When she speaks the movement listens. Try to stop the movement—you can’t. The next election will show its power one more time. The GOP will need to listen or become part of the dust bin of history.
Very well said.
Many of us missed that song during the Bush/Clinton/Bush years, and we discussed if often, but when Sarah stood up and began singing it, many of us could hardly believe our ears.
That song resonates with all true Americans, and therein lies the reason for the passionate, unbridled support that so many Americans express for this wonderful patriot.
No, she's not Ronald Reagan, but as you so eloquently put it, she sings the same full-throated melody, and we love her for it. Even more-so, because she sings it straight from the heart.
God bless Sarah, but this vanity doesn't not help her.
Sarah is my choice. I’m holding out for her. So, tell me now, in all honesty, do you think she’s gonna run?
How did the Bushes treat McCain badly? I recall it being the other way around.
McCain thinks the Bush team screwed him in 2000.
Quite naturally, McCain has screwed the nation ever since, just to get even.
Don’t ask me..., but it makes sense to him.
Ron Paul has more to say in the founding of the tea party than Palin does, but Palin gets a lot of credit for the positive tea party results across the country. She was out there working harder for the tea party candidates than anybody.
In terms of being able to show video of “proto tea party” type events, there is a ton of video from various “tea party” events on 12/16/07. There is video of people with tri corner hats. There is video of Ron Paul dumping tea into the water in a reanactment of the original Boston Tea Party.
If Ron Paul wants to use this video to make a TV Commercial showing that he is true authentic old school tea party, it will be effective. There were simultaneous tea party events taking place all over the country, and even in other parts of the world. And it puts to bed the idea that Ron Paul is not tea party.
Dirty tricks in south carolina primary with bush operatives saying mccain had drug addict wife, he cheated and might be homosexual and that his adopted kid was a negro when in fact Bangladeshi
It was not pretty but in killed McCains momentum he had going
Ironic considering Mccain had much better southern bloodlines and bonafides than mostly Yankee Bush did though Mammy Bush did have gentry kin from of all places South Carolina..rich too
I’m a big Sarah fan, too. I think she’ll run because she feels that we need what she has to offer. I don’t even think this recent bus tour is a test whether she’s “electable” or not, just alot of good PR.
That non-electable crap is only desparate spin to try and deter her. I talk to some of those people that say that they hate her and she’s stupid. I ask them what exactly they heard that made her sound stupid. 9 times out of 10, they don’t have an example or recite Tina Fey’s “I can see Russia...” statement.
This “stupid” label will, IMHO, dissolve quickly after she declares her canidacy. The networks will not be able to ignore, nor silence her speaking directly to the people of this country. Her air time will increase and they will identify with her message, just as we do.
I don’t think there are enough entitled Dems to re-elect Obama and we should take this oportunity to stand behind a fearless woman that can really get this country back on track.
Okay, that sounds familiar. Thanks for the reminder.
Think back to August 2008. I was a supporter os John McCain due to his service to the Country. I thought that he was treated badly by the Bush Family in 2000, and I was glad to see him get his due.Dirty tricks in south carolina primaryHow did the Bushes treat McCain badly? I recall it being the other way around.6 posted on July 4, 2011 3:45:01 AM EDT by skr
That clearly was the case. I wanted McCain to lose, but Bush played dirty pool to beat him in S.C.
While I was all to aware of his troublesome habit of "reaching across the aisle", I didn't care for Romney, finding him slick and disingenuous. I can still remember him trying to show us that he was a lifelong NRA guy (Boy, who wants to go to the shooting range for a photo-op this time around? Anyone up for a challenge from Sarah?) I thought Huckabee had alot of Elmer Gantry in him. Rudy and Fred Thompson got me excited, but when they failed to light a fire, I was happy for John McCain.The pickings, I agree, certainly were slim in '08. But not so slim as to make me look past the fact that John McCain was wrong on the issues he seemed to care about the most.Again, the whole field of declared candidates was a farce. But McCain was a parody of a conservative candidate, and I understood Rush when he mused that McCain would do almost as much damage by winning as he would by losing.
- McCain-Feingold? Unconstitutional, and damaging to conservatives.
- Amnesty? Reagan tried it, and it backfired on us big time.
- TARP? How'd that work out for ya?
- "Prisoners of War?" The only legitimate POWs we had were from fighting Saddam before he went underground, and from fighting the Taliban. The rest were people who studiously avoided any semblance of adherence to the Geneva Conventions - and accordingly had no rights under the Conventions.
She will enter after Labor Day..
Your Post #10 is spot on. I just wish she’d hurry and declare her candidacy. But, she’s very smart and she knows what she’s doing.
I would vote for Palin if she would declare that she would appoint John Bolton as Sec. of State, Thomas Sowell as Sec. of Ed. (with the express purpose of dismantling and closing), Ron Paul as Sec. of Treasury, and all other Cabinet posts to actual conservatives.
Some of the people she has buddied up with in the past, give me pause. She does say some good things though.
One man, a College-degreed banker, told me that he couldn’t stand Sarah Palin and he voted for Obama. I asked why and his answer was he didn’t like the way she said: “You betcha”. I said, “Wait a minute, because you didn’t like the way a Western gal said ‘you betcha’, you voted for a Marxist Muslim?” He just put his head down and said: “I won’t do that again”. DUMB A**.
GMTA . . .
Ping to my #12.Oh, and another bullet point against McCain?
- "Anthropogenic global warming" credulousness.
I was not very informed about what actually took place. It bothers me quite a bit when politicians pull routines like this. If I remember correctly, Cindy did have a problem with some pain killers didn’t she?
At any rate, these were disgusting ploys.
McCain had every right to be angry about it. I think Bush should have been fair game for McCain to trash at every opportunity. Where I went south on that idea, is when McCain started trashing sound policy to get back at him.
That wasn’t just hurting Bush, but also the nation.
McCain has been a crusty old ass for decades. I would far rather have had Bush be president, but you win those things by merit, not using dirty tricks.
I’m no Bush fan by any means either.
Thanks for the refresher.
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